The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-18


tion,i or that you have, with the leg,
islatpre, lett this issue, isolated ana
4 unincumbered?"
Upon you, Che govenorof all Texas,
the chief magistrate of prohibitionistss
as well as of the liquor dealers and
their defenders, ! respectfully press
the inquiry: "IIave you helped to Sc
cure affair vote Of the pcopleT Have
you assisted in securing fa!r expires
sion of the popular willW
When YOU see and know by the OK
pressions in the papers that thousands
upon thousands OF Democrats desire
to vote for this amendment rs an
"isolatcd and unincumbered ques-
tion,n but who do not desire to injurc
the Democratic party, you now, their
governor and standard bearer, come
out before the world. and upon just
construction, intimate that for a Dem
ocrat to be prohibitionist is like
numbering ones own father in that
the abortion of this amendment Will
murder the Democratic party.
In doing this you defeat the only
thing under heaven the people, asked
| 1Or-tnat Is, al jsolateu anu UNI"
numbered issue"
They showed clearly by their votes,
tens of thousands of prohibitionists
who voted for you against Dohoncy,
where they stood as Democrats, and
that they did not seek TO dismembcr
the party. Having thus, in an une-
quivocal manner made plain their
icalty to democracy, they then say,
now let us vote on prohibition i'll a
nonpartisan election as side issue.
You recommended that this be done.
The legislature did this very thing as
their published protest shows, but
now, lust on the eve of the anti-pro-
hibition convention, when they, driv'
en- by the threats of the liquor dealers,
are trying to muster up courage
enough to make it party question,
you send out your pronunciamento
giving it to their deliberate conspiracy
as the sanction Of the gubernatorial
name. BY doing this you have made
this much at least sure: that whenever
hereafter in all the future you mix
with fair-minded men, the finger of
retribution will point to withered
flower in your chaplet Of glory. while
the voice of royal justice will say, in
the words of Bruce at Bannookburn :
"Randolph, thy wreath has lost n
rose"
Every broken-hearted woman, wild
owed and pennyless by the liquor traf-
fic, will mark that .withered flower on
your brow and find in it fit emblem
4 A 4 M
joys. Every orphan made such by the
traffic will lament as he looks hopeless
" on the wreath adjoining the head Of
his governor, the absence of that rose.
Every real parricide-who maddened
by whisky, murdered his own father
OH earth and blasphemes the name of
his father in Heaven, when stung to
never-dying death by the scorpions Of
rcmorse, will wonder with unspeaka-
BILE wonder how it could be classed as
pari ide for Democrat to vote
against the whisky that makes parri-
cldes.
But | would ask you yet another
question. Are you right sure that the
course YOU have adopted is the very
best one to guard against the dismem-
| berment of the Democratic party?
Will il add to the purity and numeri
cal strength of that party for it to be-
come a fixed principle of Democratic
discipline that any one OF its members
is to be treated as political parricide
who favors the abolition Of the whis-
Ky traffic?
| will venture another question If
the partisan issue which your words
suggest and encourage is made in this
canvass, is not that taking back with
the gubernatorial left hand what the
Legislature granted with the right
hand?
And if prohibition is defeated by
such tactics, will that settle the ques-
ton to the satisfaction of the people I!
Moreover, if you could beat us fairly
and honorably before the people on n
non-partisan issue, wouldn't that come
nearer settling it than the way you
suggest? Wouldn't il increase all good
mems love for the Democratic party .!
Would it be likely TO cost the Demo-
cratic party in the future one single
vote? Wouldn't il be an unanswerablc
argument against the third party pro-
hibitionists, and eflectually stop their
future gains from the Democratic
ranks? Again, haven't you practi-
cally conceded by your suggestions the
invincible strength and immortality
of the prohibition idea, when, in addi-
ton to hundreds of thousands of dol
lars from liquor men outside of Texas,
in addition to DIR. Arch Cochran, and
your reliance upon the Republican
colored and tho Bohemian vote, you
yet think it necessary TO array against
j nrnhihitinn the MANN of a marty Whose